Money transfer protective system



June 16, 1964 D.c|ANc|M1NO MONEY TRANSFER PROTECTIVE SYSTEM Filed July l2, 1965l INVENTOR. .QM/Iwo? 04AM/fava l Dams/rae United States Patent O 3,137,252 MDNEY TRANSFER PRTECTWE SYSTEM Dominick Ciancimino, 80 Baruch Drive, New York, NY. Filed JulylZ, 1963, Ser. No. 294,641 1 Claim. (Cl. 109--19) The present invention relates to a money transfer protective system, and it particularly relates to. a protective window made entirely of bullet proof glass or transparent` the same place.

The receiving and delivery openings are guarded by achute with the upper edge of the `chute being above the upper edges of the receiving and delivery opening, said chute being J-shaped in cross section. Each chute is provided with a delivery tray.

Still further objects and advantages will appear in the more detailed description set forth below, it being understood, however, that this more detailed description is given by way of illustration and explanation only and not by way of limitation, since various changes therein may be made by those skilled in the art without departing from the scope and spirit ofthe present invention.

With the foregoing and other objects in view, the invention consists of the novel construction, combination and arrangement of parts as hereinafter more specifically described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein is shown an embodiment of the invention, but it is to be understood that changes, variations and modiiications can be resorted to which fall within the scope of the claims hereunto appended.

In the drawings wherein like reference characters denote corresponding parts throughout the several views:

FIG. 1 is a front elevational view of the device according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a transverse vertical sectional view upon the line 2 2 of FIG. 1.

FIG. 3 is a transverse horizontal sectional View upon the line 3-4-3 of FIG. l.

Referring to FIGS. 1 to 3, there is shown a protective window device A which may be formed of a bullet proof glass or bullet proof protective plastic.

Normally, the glass or plastic consists of a plurality of sheets which are iirmly glued or adhesively connected together by transparent adhesive material which will have the same light transmitting properties as the glass or plastic and will not distort the vision of either the teller or the depositor.

In FIG. 1, the teller will be behind the device while the depositor will be in front of the device.

This protective window is supported between the uprights B of steel, aluminum or wood, and above the counter C also of steel, aluminum or wood.

Desirably, the height of the counter C will be at about the height of the waist of the depositor and teller and will be supported in an elevated position, and the window A will then extend upwardly from about the height of the waist of the depositor and teller to a dis. ltance of about twice the height or at least one and-one.

half times the height of a relatively tall person.

This will prevent any likelihood of reaching over the top of the bullet proof window A and will constitute a ice reliable protection for the teller against any possibility of robbery at gun point or otherwise, and it will also protect the teller against anyone reaching over or around the window A to remove any money, checks or other material which may be on the tellers side thereof.,

Desirably, the shelf C may be made so short as not to permit standing thereon. The shelf desirably shouldrbe around 3 to 4 feet from the floor whereas the window should extend to a height of 10 to 12 feet above the oor.

The width of the window should be about 4 to 8 feet.

The invention particularly resides in the combination of the deposit opening D, the deposit chute E and the deposit tray F closely adjacent; and the laterally displaced return window G, the return chute H and the return tray J.

The width of the counter and of the trays F and I should be such that there is no likelihood of the depositor standing on such counter or shelf, but so that it will be of suicient width to hold the money or checks as well as the other deposit and banking documents as may be necessary.

The deposit and return openings D and G are desir- I ably in the plane of the window E.

The deposit chute E and the return chute H are each provided with a cover portion 10 and 11 which will project from the window a distance equal Vto one-half to about three-fourths the width adjacent the side of the counter C. i A i Each chute is provided with the transparent sides 12, for the deposit chute E and 13 for the return chute H, and each chute is provided with parallel downwardly inclined and oblique forward and rear faces 14 and 15 for the deposit chute E and 16 and 17 for the return chute H.

Each chute willhave an oblique shaped opening K for the teller or deposit chute E and L for the return or teller chute H.

As indicated, the top walls 10 and 11 of the chutes E and H are integrally joined at 18 and 10 to the main body portion 20 of the window A, while the sides 12 and 13 are integrally joined to the main body 20 at the bends 21 and 22 respectively.

The front oblique panels 14 and 16 of the chutes E and H are integrally joined to the top cover portions at 23 and 24.

The side walls 12 and 13 are integrally joined to the front wall 16 along the oblique edges 25 and 26.

The interior inclined walls 15 and 17 of the chutes E and H project downwardly and outwardly from the main window A and are integrally joined thereto at the junctions 27 and 28.

The lower edges of the inner inclined walls will terminate at 29 and 30 at the back portions 31 and 32 of the outside and inside trays F and J and inside of the lips or upstanding edge portions 33 and 34 of said trays.

The entire assembly is desirably constructed as a unit including the main plastic window A; the chutes E and H apart from the trays Fand J which may be of plastic.

These trays F and I may be of plastic, aluminum or wood and may be cemented or otherwise permanently attached to the counter C.

The uprights B and the counter C may be provided with the grooves 50 and 51, and the window A is made up as a rigid assembly and may be placed in position from the top.

Due to its rigid construction, it will not be exible and it will not be possible by applying pressure thereon to pull out the mounting grooves or recesses 50 and 51.

-This structure will fully protect the teller and at the same time will permit transaction of banking business without delay or difiiculty.

The depositor will place his deposit in the opening D,

y and this' deposit will drop through the inclined chute E into the tray F where it'will be taken care of by the teller.

The teller in turn will return any change, deposit receipts or the like through the opening G, and it will fall down into the tray J on the outside of the counter'C where it maybe picked up. ,v

There will be no access whatsoever from'the depositor position to the teller position in view ofthe fact that the deep chutes E and H constitute the only connection.

These chutes are desirably inclined at an angle of about to 20 degrees away from the main window A and they are about one-halfthe height Vof the window, and the openings D and G should be about the height of mans head so that there will be ready communication by voice through the openings D and G with only one'thickness of bullet proof glass or other bullet proof material intervening between the teller and the depositor.

It has been found that this slight inclination of 10 to 20 degrees will permit ready communication by voice without muing the sound since the voice will be transmitted down through the inclined chute as well as through the bullet proof material itself at the top of the chute.

The depth and'inclination-of the chute is also such that the depositor cannot insert his arm therethrough, and thewidth of the inclined chutes E and H should be vabout 4 to 6 inches and the depth should be about 2 to 4 inches.

Full protection is thus achieved.

The applicant is aware of the'Madsen Patent No. 1,003,116; ythe Honsinger Patent No. 1,460,584; the Smart Patent No. 1,736,672; the Johnson Patent `No. 1,931,580; the Orr Patent No. 1,875,649 and the Cordray Patent No. 2,007,744 no one of which however shows the complete bullet proof integral construction of the present invention.

The present application is a continuation-impart of application Serial No. 846,946 led October 16, 1959, now abandoned. As many changes couldv be made in the above money transfer protective "system, and many widely different Y 4 embodiments of this invention could be made without departing from the scope of the claim, yit is intended that all matter contained in the above description shall be interpreted as illustrative and not in a limiting sense.

Having now particularly 'described and ascertained the nature of the invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, what is claimed is:

A security window for Valuable exchanges, comprising an integral vertical barrier Wall of bullet resisting glass and a counter on which the wall is supported, the wall having a receiving opening elevated above said counter anda delivery opening separatedtherefrorn horizontally and elevated above saidrcounter, said openings being 1ocated in a common horizontal plane approximately the height of the heads of the teller and depositor, the receiving opening being'guardedy by a vertical chute disposed rearwardly of said receiving opening and spaced apart therefrom to permit valuables to be deposited in said chute, the upper end of the chute being disposed at the receiving opening `and 'so arranged that all objects Vinserted between said chute and said barrier'wall must References Cited in the le of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 1,003,116 Madsen Sept. 12, 1911 1,460,584 Honsinger July 3, 1923 1,736,672 Smart Nov. 19, 1929 1,875,649 Orr Sept. 6, 1932 1,916,828 kDe Gloria July 4, 1933 2,034,336

Flack Mar. 17, 1936 

